Another digital colouring study + armour study, this time of Lae’zel. I have so many screenshots of BG3 with dramatic lighting saved, so I’m putting them to use!
I’ve been pushing my digital drawing style and trying to find a go-to way of colouring digitally that I like the result of. I’ve drawn digitally for years but not with much stylistic consistency. Two things I tried that felt good about this one:
- Keeping the original sketch lines. They are faint, but there, adding some roughness. I don’t like when my drawings feel too polished and “perfect” – a reason I tend to like traditional mediums more.
- Creating a layer of base colours, where I aimed to build the values and an underpainting of sorts, which I then blended using the smudge tool. Then on top of that I used a watercolour brush in flat layers – the watercolour brush has some translucency so the underpainting comes through, and adds texture.
On this I painted the linework too, mixed feelings on that.
